English Bible Versions : A Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society (Paperback)

Preface; Introductory foreword; 1. What the Bible is; 2. A short statement as to the sixty-six books of Holy Scripture; 3. The fourteen books of the Apocrypha; 4. Manuscripts and versions; 5. The Septuagint; 6. The oldest existing Bible; 7. The Vulgate; 8. Quotations from early Christian writers; 9. Our Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament; 10. England's early efforts; 11. The first English Bible; 12. Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament; 13. Early printed English Bibles; 14. The Council of Trent and the Authorized Bible of the Roman Church; 15. Later English Bibles of the sixteenth century; 16. The popular English Bible of the Roman Church; 17. The Authorized Version of 1611; 18. The need of further revision; 19. Further revision of the Greek text of the New Testament; 20. The Revised Version of 1881?1885; 21. Printers' errors; 22. The English Bible-Printing monopoly. The King's Printer, etc.; 23. The American Standard Edition of the Revised Version; 24. The Marginal Readings Bible; 25. Early American versions and prints; 26. The different authorities available for the various versions; 27. Concluding words; Appendix; Index.